Monthly Archives: July 2009

domesticated us, and not the other way around. seb says it is so. Dr Karen McComb, a specialist in mammal vocal communication at the University of Sussex, said that by employing an embedded cry, cats appear to be exploiting innate tendencies that humans have for nurturing offspring. also, in a wonderful book called Oryx and [...]

catalan cats are less concerned about their appearance. one-eye is not young, and her skin is leathery and folded and thick around the belly. but you don’t see her hiding shyly in kaftans or tankinis when she leaves her grape-draped courtyard. it is bikini weather. it is the heat that erodes the shame of bodies [...]